[DubaiSis]

I am way more on the side of affirmative action than against. And I believe once you add any sort of restricted selection into a process it is part of the human condition to want to select people "Like you." And therefore the people not like you need a little bit of a leg up to get offered the same opportunities.

I am concerned for the demise of affirmative action where it concerns women. Our status on an even playing field is tenuous at best right now. Yes, we don't seem to have a problem getting into college, but would that change if they didn't HAVE to accept women?

But I guess I've always believed that if you have 2 people who are "equally qualified" the spot should go to the person who would benefit greater from the leg up. And the stories that many people can come up with where the black kid buffoon got into college when the stellar but sadly rich and white kid didn't make the cut I think are way more rare than the stories would make them seem. Reverse discrimination is (IMO) verging on urban myth.